So it’s currently my second week in The Gambia as of writing this (February 1st, to be precise), not even halfway through that week, and I’ve finished my second book already. (Well, the first one I had read half of before departing, but it was a very long book, so bear with me.) I like remembering what books I’ve read, and I get the feeling I’ll be doing a lot of reading here, so I’ve decided to list here all of the books I read while abroad.

• Long Walk to Freedom: The Autobiography of Nelson Mandela
• Don’t Let’s Go to the Dogs Tonight, Alexandra Fuller
• Tsotsi, Athol Fugard
• Dreams From My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance, Barack Obama
• Life of Pi, Yann Martel
• Nervous Conditions, Tsitsi Dangarembga
• The Catcher in the Rye, J. D. Salinger
• She’s Not There: A Life in Two Genders, Jennifer Finney Boylan
• Mukiwa: A White Boy in Africa, Peter Godwin
• The Freedom Writers Diary: How a Teacher and 150 Teens Used Writing to Change Themselves and the World Around Them, The Freedom Writers with Erin Gruwell
• The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
• Small Island, Andrea Levy
• My Life as an Experiment, A. J. Jacobs
• The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk Kidd